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Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Japanese film and media, specifically from the high growth era (1954-1971) and recessionary present; histories and theories of labor and management; media theory; East Asian transnational media networks
Frequently Taught Courses
Studies in Japanese Film: Visualizing Catastrophe in Japanese Film and Media; Approaches to Japanese Animation: Genre, Technology, and Fan Cultures
Senior Lecturer
Acting Japanese Language Coordinator
Research Interests
Popular culture, gender, literacy, and Japanese language teaching
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Japanese; Second Year Japanese; Third Year Japanese; Humanities Topics in Japanese: Manga and Anime
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
Chinese language pedagogy; cognitive linguistics; sociolinguistics
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Chinese; Second Year Chinese; Chinese in Social Sciences; Business Chinese
Professor
Director, Chinese Flagship Program
Research Interests
Foreign language pedagogy; foreign language learning strategies; second language acquisition; heritage language learners; technology assisted learning/teaching; Chinese language film
Frequently Taught Courses
Chinese in Humanities: Chinese Culture through Literature and Film
Lecturer
Associate Director of Institute for Korean Studies
Research Interests
Family, migration and education; gender, culture and cinema; globalization and inequality; household and community ethnography
Frequently Taught Courses
Studies in South Korean Cinema; Dating, Sex and Marriage in South Korea; South Korean Education; Introduction to Korean Society
Assistant Professor
(Arriving in January)
Research Interests
Japanese society; inequality; work and organizations; gender; race and ethnicity; immigration
Frequently Taught Courses
Japanese Politics and Society
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Modern Korean literature; Korean popular culture; cultures of protest; intellectual history; translation studies; theories of world literature
Frequently Taught Courses
Literatures of Love in East Asia; Textual Rebirths: Myths and Legends in East Asia; Divided Loyalties: Modern Korean Literature in Translation; Korean Popular Culture
Lecturer
Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics; Korean language pedagogy; second language acquisition; visual culture
Korea Foundation Professor
Director, Korean Studies Institute
Research Interests
Gender and society in contemporary Korea
Frequently Taught Courses
Gender and Class in South Korea; Dating, Sex, and Marriage in South Korea; South Korean Education: Examination Hell or Model for the World?
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Korean Language Program Coordinator
Research Interests
Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approaches to grammar
Frequently Taught Courses
Second Year Korean; Third Year Korean; Korean Language and Culture; Introduction to Korean Linguistics
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Politics and economy of China; China's state-owned enterprises; leadership in China's public sector, China’s early reform and opening; international investment and trade
Frequently Taught Courses
China and the World Economy; International Political Economy of China; China, Inc.: From Communism to Capitalism?
Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations
Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative
Research Interests
International relations of East Asia; Japan's & China's politics/foreign policy; the U.S.-Japan alliance; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy; international security affairs
Frequently Taught Courses
The Rise of China; International Conflict in East Asia; Japanese Foreign Policy; U.S.-Japan Relations; U.S.-China Relations; U.S. Asia-Pacific Strategy
Lecturer
Research Interests
Chinese language; second language phonology; vocabulary memorization; L2 Chinese speaking skills development; technology in language teaching
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Chinese; Third Year Chinese
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests
Chinese linguistics and psycholinguistics; sentence and discourse processing; East Asian psycholinguistics; experimental linguistics; corpus linguistics; linguistic anthropology
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to Chinese Linguistics; Psychology of Chinese; Sentence Processing; Chinese Language and Culture; East Asian Psycholinguistics
Associate Professor, EALC
Research Interests
Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; gender and cultural studies
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to Literary Chinese I; Ghosts, Immortals, Animal Spirits: Encountering the Supernatural in Traditional Chinese Culture; Readings in Chinese Literature; Traditional Chinese Women Writers
Lecturer
Research Interests
Chinese language pedagogy; Chinese linguistics; prosodic phonology; Chinese dialectology
Frequently Taught Courses
First Year Chinese; Third Year Chinese; Fourth Year Chinese
Associate Professor, Sociology, EALC
Research Interests
Contemporary Chinese society; social conflict; justice systems; lawyers; globalization; institutions and institutional change
Frequently Taught Courses
Contemporary Chinese Society and Change; Law and Authoritarianism: Through the Lens of China
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Research Interests
History of twentieth-century Japan; environmental and urban history; consumption and consumer culture; visual culture
Frequently Taught Courses
Visual Culture of Modern Japan; Hiroshima: History, City, Event; Modern Japanese History
Paul V. McNutt Associate Professor in Japanese Studies
Research Interests
Japanese history; violence and conflict; social history, medieval estate system, peasant history
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to East Asian Studies; Samurai: Culture and Violence; Introduction to Premodern Japan; East Asia Between Mongols and Samurai
Visiting Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Japanese literature; classical Japanese fiction and memoir; gender in pre-modern Japanese culture; eco-criticism and the literature of place
Frequently Taught Courses
Workshop in the Translation of Modern Japanese Literature; Sex, Romance and Story-Telling in the Tale of Genji
Assistant Professor
Chinese Language Program Coordinator
(Currently on Leave)
Research Interests
Chinese linguistics; Chinese language and pedagogy; second language acquisition; motivation and learning strategies
Frequently Taught Courses
Fourth Year Chinese; Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language; Chinese Curriculum and Material Design
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Japanese language studies; language acquisition; second language acquisition; heritage languages; language processing; Japanese linguistics
Frequently Taught Courses
Third-Year Japanese I; Third-Year Japanese II; Teaching Japanese as a Foreign/Second Language; Japanese Language and Society
Assistant Professor of Early Chinese History
Research Interests
Early Chinese history; kingship, religion, and ritual; bronzes and bronze inscriptions; excavated manuscripts; historiography as literature
Frequently Taught Courses
Early China; China: The Age of Glory; Facing and Fleeing Death in Early China; Worship and Rule in East Asia; China's Past in Speculative Fiction
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Modern Chinese literature and intellectual history; transnational networks of knowledge; intersections of human sciences, literature, and history
Frequently Taught Courses
Studies in Chinese Cinema; Chinese Literature since 1300; Twentieth Century Chinese Literature
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies